LightningPaul

One of the better demonstrated themes at the Carnaval parade in Heist. These guys were very funny and cool. The man on the image was willing to strike a serious pose. Afterwards he took a picture of me with the camera in his hand :-)


TECH-INFO: For framing I used the Dutch tilt which makes the image more dynamic. A nice technique as long you don't used it in all your images. During capturing the parade I was shooting JPGs which is OK in case you only do small corrections or enhancements. First I run it through DxO Lighting (part of DxO Optics Pro) and cropped it to 4/3 format . Afterwards I used a bunch of curves, vibrancy/saturation, HSL and brightness masked adjustment layers in Photoshop. Just by painting on the masks I darkened the background and brightened/enhanced the subject or various parts of it.


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